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Gulcin Ozkan – Turkey’s collapsing Lira: Government is running out of Options for embattled Currency

August 11, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Turkish lira hit its weakest ever level against the US dollar on August 7, trading at 7.36 at one point, having lost nearly 20% of its value since the beginning of the year. It […]

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Bill Mitchell: Tracing the roots of progressive views on the duty to work

August 11, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Part 2 of a series. There are a number of interesting thoughts concerning a very divisive topic. Read here

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The Verge: Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees

August 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

A stunning court ruling puts Uber and Lyft in a tight spot Read here Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images

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EU politics

Jonathan Cook – How the Guardian betrayed not only Corbyn but the last vestiges of British democracy

August 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This proves once again that liberal democracy is only about entitlement. The real surprise is that those we follow on Twitter, all “progressives”, round 20% of their tweets are articles from the Guardian. They see […]

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Michael Roberts – Summer Economics

August 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Michael Roberts looks at some newly published books on economics. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog It’s summer in the northern hemisphere and […]

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IWGB: IWGB wins worker status and rights for ‘gig economy’ CitySprint couriers once and for all

August 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

City Sprint changed workers’ contracts rather than comply with a previous ruling that they were entitled to holiday pay and minimum wage. The company could now be forced to pay out thousands in unpaid holidays. […]

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Richard Murphy – How do we pay for the Green New Deal

August 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The idea may now be popular around the world, and is seen as the platform for creating a sustainable economy by many, but it is by no means a done deal. One of the biggest […]

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Proton Mail: How Apple uses anti-competitive practices to extort developers and support authoritarian regimes

August 10, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Last week, the European Commission announced, in response to a complaint filed by Spotify, that it would be opening an investigation into Apple’s App Store practices, which potentially constitutes an illegal breach of EU competition […]

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Dean Baker – An Economic Survival Package, not a Stimulus Package

August 9, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Although about the USA the economic questions are the same as in the EU – and the policies are not that different. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy […]

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Inside Climate News – What’s a Virtual Power Plant?

August 9, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

An interesting possibility, which would help reduce the power of big electricity providers and their destructive energy monopoly. Interestingly Italy has initiated a programme that has some similar features. By Dan Gearino Cross-posted from Inside […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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